Ms Ursula Crickmay

About me:

Ursula teaches on the Creative Arts in Education MA programme, where she is the music specialist. She also works as a researcher on other projects in GSE and is currently working on the Arts Council England funded Penryn Creativity Collaboratives. Other recent projects have included the Sci-Arts Creative Teaching Resource and the research programme Dance, Health and Wellbeing: Debating and Moving Forward Methodologies. Ursula is currently undertaking a PhD in which her research focus is on professional musicians and their creative music workshop practices, using a framework of posthuman theory. She is on the editorial board for the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity. 

Her background is in the development and management of creative learning programmes with artists, organisations and venues. She was Director of Learning at Wigmore Hall over a 12 year period, and in recent years redeveloped the South West branch of Live Music Now, working with communities across the South West of England. She continues to undertake other consultancy work which has included developing a Creative Learning strategy for Wiltshire Music Centre, projects for the Arts at Dartington, consultancy for Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra, mentoring for South West Music School and external assessment for the Royal Academy of Music.  

She is a member of the Creativity and Emergent Educational-Futures network and coordinates a Music Network Group which brings together staff and students from different disciplines with an interest in music in their research - please get in touch if you would be interested in joining.